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I found more stuff in a drawer! This is, I think, my very first compact digital camera. Looks like it was released in 2003? So I probably bought it shortly after that. It’s very scuffed, and I think I remember carrying around in my pants...
Compared to blogs listing post links via pagination, I strongly prefer blogs listing all post links in one convenient list. Whether that list is separated into many different sub-lists or not, it makes finding compelling post titles and...
I built a Mac menubar app called Ration to see my Claude Code usage. Get it here. This is one of the things with coding agents, building small tools solving a small pain became increasingly easy. It’s also the situation where you are...
More sad news arrived yesterday in the death of Tim Curry It’s only just over a year ago that I did a post celebrating his first famous role in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. He did many of other things and played many other parts,...
Tone Ranger Horse With No Name Tone Ranger is the musical project of Alex Simon, who resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Simon moved to the desert back in 2018, with an ambition to capture its stark beauty within his music. Here he channels...
Every time I am in London the sheer number of fire exit signs always grabs my attention. The fire code is the only book in your office written entirely by the dead. It does not read that way. It reads like the most boring document ever...
I think I'm giving up on being a "professional" software engineer. I've tried it for a decade. I've been laid off more than half of the times I've been in the game. I've been fired while having a mental health break that was induced due...
Discrobble now shows the Notes you keep against a record in your Discogs collection, and lets you edit them from the album page. This release also collects everything shipped since 1.3.1: marketplace prices, the full Wikipedia intro,...
Book 27 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Still comfortably ahead with my reading. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. It is almost...
Today the Innovation Lab from Gloucestershire libraries visited Dursley to do a pop up lab session and share some of their activities. I had already briefed my Dursley Code Club members about the day, but was also hoping to attract some...
“I’m always searching for something, for someone.” –Taki Tachibana Your Name was one of 2016’s biggest releases: with director Makoto Shinkai at the helm, Your Name presented a tale of supernatural phenomenon which drops secondary...
TL;DR: Catching up on a sprawling few weeks of infrastructure rebuilding—from porting C64 BASIC maze generators for the blog to rewriting my RSS feed reader in pure-Go SQLite—along with building a Fediverse ActivityPub bot in a day,...
I did not sleep well last night. Things kept waking me up. Thunder, my girlfriend messing with the air conditioner, and eventually my watch got a notification this morning. That one was annoying. It was some junk notification that...
Michael Peel and Antonia Cundy: The cowboy clinics selling unproven longevity treatments. Wherein two FT reportes pose as patients and get to hear some ridiculous promises. How on Earth do these supposed doctors get to keep their...
I blog about a lot of things. Some posts are just updates on talks and publications, a public record of what I do. My favorites are the short essays that begin with an idea that pops into my head and end up somewhere bigger. And I tend...